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Japan invades China, initiating WWII in the Pacific
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Germany invades Poland, initiating WWII in Europe
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Blitzkrieg against Denmark and Norway
Blitzkrieg is a German Term for "Lightning War" and is a military tactic designed to create confusition amoung enimies through mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
German attacks against Netherlands, Belgium, France
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France Surrenders
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Battle Of Britian
In Summer of 1940, German and British air forces had a fight in the sky over the UK. The fight ended when Germany failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. Britians vicotry brough them to safety from a ground invasion. -
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
Hitler came into the country and when the strated to invade, the Russians lured the Germans into the middle of the country and took all the food with them and left them there to starve so they could win the war easily because the troops would starve. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Philippines, and Dutch East Indies. By the spring of 1942, Japan control most of Southeast Asia
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy almost 20 American vessels, and eight enormous battleships, and 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the invasion, President Roosevelt asked to declare war on Japan. -
United States enters the war
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Germany and Axis partners declare war on the U.S.
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Battle of Midway
Six months after Pearl Harbor, United States defeated Japan a naval battle of World War II. United States was able defend Japan’s planned attack of its few remaining aircraft carriers, causing permanent damage to Japan navy -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great War. It stopped the German infusion into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with nearly 2 million deaths. -
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Great Britain and United States invade Africa
The British forced german and italian forces to surrender when they invaded Northern Africa. Then hitler made an attack and the germans again surrenedered and they were taken of all of their supplies having to struggle through the fridige winter. -
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Battle of Normandy began on June 6, 1944 or D-Day. British and U.S. troops land on the beaches of Normandy. Paris is liberated by Allied forces. By December, nearly all of France, most of Belgium, and parts of the Netherlands are liberated.
D-Day consisted of 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landing on five beaches along a 50-miles. The invasion was one of the largest water military assaults in history and required a lot of planning. -
Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, on Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a result of the bomb. Another 35000 are injured and an extra 60000 will die because of the after effects of it. -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
The second bomb dropped on Japan making them finally surrender because of their terrible conditions. -
Japan unconditionally surrenders.
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Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
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Soviets launch final offensive, encircling Berlin, Germany